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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rep. Cunningham to Plead Guilty, Source Says — WASHINGTON - Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham will plead guilty to tax violations, a person close to the investigation of the California Republican has told The Associated Press. — Cunningham has been under investigation since his sale of his home …
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sandiegotribune.com:
Cunningham pleads guilty to conspiring to take bribes, income tax evasion — SAN DIEGO - Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday morning to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence to help a defense contractor get business. — He also pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion.
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
Calif. Congressman Pleads Guilty — SAN DIEGO — Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges involving the sale of his home two years ago to a defense contractor at an inflated price. — Admitting to a judge that he took bribes, Cunningham entered pleas …
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham to Plead Guilty to Tax Violations
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The Carpetbagger Report
David Johnston / New York Times:
Another Time Reporter Is Asked to Testify in Leak Case — WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, the magazine reported on Sunday.
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rawstory.com:
Testimony from Rove's former assistant may solidify case that he misled leak inquiry, lawyers say — Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week in his two year-old investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson …
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
I Call Partial Mulligan... After quite a bit of late-night e-mailing with Jeralyn, and a subsequent good night's sleep (well, as good as it can get with an early-rising toddler in the house), I've decided that my theory on opening the attorney-client privilege to get to factual information may be fatally flawed.
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The Next Hurrah
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Tribunal Leader in Hussein's Case Is Target of Plot — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 27 - Less than 24 hours before Saddam Hussein's scheduled return to court on charges of crimes against humanity, the police in northern Iraq said Sunday that they had arrested 10 Sunni Arab men carrying orders …
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CNN:
Back in court, Hussein hits out at 'occupiers' — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein argued with the judge and complained about Iraq's "occupiers" as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a Baghdad court Monday. — Hussein, carrying a copy of the Quran under …
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Saddam Trial Resumes, Then Is Postponed — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday with the former Iraqi president angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs under foreign guard.
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Gateway Pundit
Jim Yardley / New York Times:A Judge Tests China's Courts, Making History
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The Peking Duck
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
UP IN THE AIR — Where is the Iraq war headed next? — In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Man With the Inside Scoop — For Bob Woodward, Proximity to Power Cuts Both Ways — It was a cinematic image that lured thousands of young people into journalism, Robert Redford coaxing information out of Hal Holbrook in a dimly lit parking garage. — And since, in real life …
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The Heretik, mediabistro, Sisyphus Shrugged, Hit and Run, WTF Is It Now?? and Taegan Goddard's …
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New York Sun:
Frank Rich's War — Those who charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves. It's one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree …
ThreatsWatch.Org:
The Hounds of Husaybah — A night on patrol with the Jackals of Lima Company — By Bill Roggio — HUSAYBAH, IRAQ: The evening kicked off with a ride in the darkness from Camp Qaim, which is situated at the railroad station South of Al Qaim, to Camp Gannon, the outpost that sits directly between …
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Jed Babbin / American Spectator:
The Vietnamization of Iraq — As hard as it is to think of Ted Kennedy as a political visionary, his April 2004 statement that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," was way before its time. In the last presidential election year Kennedy started down a path that would have been political suicide for Kerry.
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Associated Press:
Marble chunk falls from Supreme Court facade — 'All of a sudden, these blocks started falling' — WASHINGTON (AP) — A basketball-sized piece of marble molding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court Monday, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.
Los Angeles Times:
Timing Entwined War Vote, Election — WASHINGTON — Tom Daschle, the former Democratic senator from South Dakota, remembers the exchange vividly. — The time was September 2002. The place was the White House, at a meeting in which President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pressed …
MTV:
50 Cent — 50 Cent and Kanye West are the only ones selected to be GQ's "Men of the Year" who have no false modesty about it — both of the hip-hop stars justify their big egos in the mag's pages. But they also have more on their minds than just themselves.
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Mark in Mexico
